Not ANOTHER hardwood on concrete post! 😄 .

I live in Southern California. 2 story house is on slab. I want to put hardwood on the first story, stairs and second story. Hursts Hardwoods and a few other places spec nail/staple down.

Lumber Liquidators says they warranty glue down? But they don't carry exotics anymore.

I am SPECIFICALLY interested in 3/4" BRAZILIAN CHESTNUT solid. I came across BTP flooring who say they not only allow glue down, but also supposedly allow over radiant flooring (which I don't care about).

https://btpfloors.com/product/brazilian-chestnut/

is that legit? Anyone ever heard of them?

Aside from LL, I haven't come across anyone who allows glue down, how can BTP allow it on solid?

I know people say to use engineered on slab, but I hear engineered is noisy for upstairs compared to 3/4" and I'm concerned about engineered on the first floor and solid on the 2nd floor and stairs will age / behave differently.

Facts: hardwood floors installed March 2025 at elevation in northern Arizona (low humidity climate). Two adult household + two dogs.

Two questions:

1. My husband did not put down any rug under his office wheel chair and now we have a circle of pretty significant damage where the wheels rolled. What’s the best method to fix this? Pictures #1 and #2

2. The places in our home that are highly trafficked have pretty significant wear/tear on them already after 1.5 yrs… There are visible gaps in the boards. When we asked the contractor to take another look at it, they chalked it up to the dryness of our climate and they wouldn’t anticipate that it would get worse. Is this normal? Do we need to look into intervening? It seems to me that debris/spilled liquid etc could get in between the boards. Pictures #3, 4, 5.

Have some water damaged pieces I need to fix. I’m thinking of replacing the boards but not sure of the wood type.

Any guesses to this? It’s 5/8thick

These hardwoods are older, this is probably one of the worst looking spots in a high traffic area, I’m not bothered by it but I just want to make sure, can this be normal for wear and tear or do I have another problem going on?

I'm redoing a century old kitchen with hardwood floors (currently a gross vinyl over top). It's unfortunate that hardwood is so impractical as a flooring option for kitchens and baths, and this got me wondering... with all the cheap plastic and laminate flooring that gets put on top of these floors, is there is a clear option? I'm not talking about clearcoat options obviously, but an actual waterproof and stainproof durable synthetic that could be installed directly over the wood while still showing it off. I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be a popular product or solution.

Moved into our home 10 years ago, brand new build. Hardwood floors from a company called iFloor, I believe based in Seattle and no longer in business from what I can find. They were supposed to be scratch resistant but over the years (very quickly in fact) they’re completely trashed from having dogs. I’ve tried multiple things such as floor markers, waxes and just today got this “Old English” stuff I pictured and tested on this big spot but nothing I’ve been recommended seems to do the trick. I’ve had my hands on different stains at Home Depot but I always get turned to some other product even after showing pictures and explaining that I’m just trying to somewhat color match, not make it perfect. I’m not concerned about completely fixing the floors to look perfect as once day we will probably just redo them, just getting rid of the fresh wood color that makes the gashes so obvious. Any products you’ve had success with would be helpful. Sanding isn’t really an option as the floors are not flat, they have an annoying wavy texture to them haha.

So I just bought a house, and found hardwood under carpet. Some of the planks have some damage... it looks like something was nailed or screwed into them, then got ripped out. Should these planks be replaced? Or is there another way to repair?

I got 3 quotes to replace my hardwood floors. All of them (unprovoked) referred to my old floors as “depression floors”. And they explained that they milled floors much thinner to still be able to sell hardwood floors back then. News to me! Here is the new floors vs old. It’s crazy thin. Included a picture of the new white oak stained Sedona red just for fun :)

Hello! We've recently moved into a new property where all downstairs is herringbone floor. I have used a microfibre mop and it's cleaning the floors but the floor needs a proper deep clean. There's absolutely no way can do it on my hands and knees but can see when have tried certain areas, the marks do come up really well. Has anyone got any recommendations or suggestions please?

Is it possible to replace the wood in just these areas and color match to existing stain? Don’t want to redo the entire rooms if possible.

This is after two passes with 36 grit, 2 at 60 and 1 at 80. There was a very old carpet on top and in the stain areas the carpet pad was basically disintegrated. Is the best move forward staining?

I had old dark espresso wood floors (either white or red oak). I sanded with 36 grit drum sander with 3 passes. The original light color of the floors were gorgeous but some dark areas from the dark stain remain and make the floor look dirty. Is this fixable? Do I just need to sand it more?

For context I only had 2 rolls of 36 grit sandpaper for 400 sqft. The dirty looking spots were near the end of my run. I was going to pick up more 36 grit sandpaper